Not A Chew Toy

[Roxana Strix]

"I knew I should have put these up higher." Roxana spoke out loud to herself because she did not sense anyone around and figured she was alone. She was out in the woods at a little later in the evening after all so not many people would be out in the woods at the hours, except probably those with shifting related powers. Not that Roxana was currently worried about who was out here at the moment since she had more important things to take care of. Important things like fixing a few of her cameras that had stopped sending out a signal that she had set up in the woods. They had been originally to cover a wide area in case of her targets going out into the woods, but they had also come in handy during the SPECTRE attack so she made sure to keep them up to date and also let Elsa and security have access to some of them. So when a few of the 'ground' cameras started to just show fuzzy screens or a blurred picture Roxana had to go out an investigate.

She had been confident in her ability to make sure they were hidden well enough, but apparently someone had found a couple of them and were messing around with them. Messing around with expensive equipment that was coming out of Roxana's budget. Granted with her position with Elsa Bellefonte she figured she could 'dive' into that budget to replace any camera she could not fix. "Well, this was certainly done on purpose." Roxana spoke to herself in a simple tone that she always had as she approached the first ground camera that was completely out of it hiding spot and tilted off of the bolt it was hooked up too. Upon closer expectation Roxana was pretty sure that something had to have been biting on it. Do I need to spray some chemicals in order to get the forest animals not to bite on this? Rox asked herself as she knelt down next the mangled camera to start getting a good read on the damage to see if she could fix it or if she was going to have to outright replace it.

A crystal dagger forming in her hand that she changed a little in order to allow her to unscrew a part of the camera to get a look at the hardware. It had been damaged but not to the point that she was not going to be able to recover any information on it. So pulling out her phone and a wire from the camera, she connected the two and worked on seeing the last set of images before the camera met its unfortunate fate.

[Skylar Blue]

Skylar growled to herself a bit, annoyed at the fact there were a cameras around the woods. She had managed to find a few on the very quiet nights where she grew bored and tracked/just listened for stuff. Often times she could faintly make our the whirring noise of the film and smell the more plasticy/metallic smell that lingered on them. They were super annoying and even more annoying to find which was not a pleasure to the leopard, or even simply there were private places that were no longer private. She took to to be careful about the surrounding area when she decided to take naps and whatnot so nobody would be able to know where she was and have some security person sneak up on her.

Despite all these negatives though, when she found them they made for great chew toys. Tough little buggers, those cameras. She looked at the fallen camera and purred in delight that this area was now. She could only hope she did enough damage to keep it that way for a while, it'd be at least a safe place for her to hang out in the woods. The feline chuckled internally at the thought of the camera's view, it would've been pretty funny.bIf someone wasn't watching that camera at the time, but had the chance to go through the film, they'd be able to see a white animal pass by fairly close, then dissapear only to reapper in a moment and walk straight to the camera sniffing a bit. After that there's be a lot of shakiness from the camera then most likely a lot of film of the ground and the inside of Skylar's mouth, depending in how long the camera had lasted.

After she had finished his business with the camera, she had only moved a shirt distance away, out of earshot but of someone came out quick enough, and decided to to have a look around, they may or may not find her in a large hollow base of a tree, hollow in the sense that there was a sort of gap between the earth and the bottom of the tree, fairly large gal mind you a leopard was napping comfortably there. One could find her from her loud purring, since she was very happy she had removed one of those pesky cameras and didn't expect anyone to come out so late to fix it, and assumed they'd either put it off for a while, or come in the morning.

[Roxana Strix]

It took a moment before her phone and the messed up camera connected and Roxana was able to see the camera's last moments. This way she would be able to tell if some student was committing vandalism or if some wild animals had discovered and decided it just didn't like cameras. Roxana had made sure that it was not in the way of anything and that it had been hidden pretty well but she supposed the occasional whirling sound from the camera would brother a few forest creatures until they just got used to it. Dark blue eyes looked at the screen on her phone as she saw something fluffy pass the screen, so it was a mammal, one that had a lot of fur. Roxana was already working through the animals that were native to the area as she then could see a nose sniffing at the camera. It was hard to fully identify what animal was now shaking her camera, but she was pretty sure that it had to be a student doing this.

A shifter to be specific because the fur coat and then the inside of the mouth were certainly not to any animal that would be found here. Roxana was able to watch a little more of her camera being chewed on before the camera cut out. According to the time of the event, it had actually not been that long ago, which meant that the culprit could still be close by. Possibly watching and laughing to themselves as Roxana stowed the camera away and began to replace it with one of the fresh ones that she had brought in a little bag that she had slung across her shoulders. She remained silent as she focused on hooking up the new camera, connecting it to the main system that all the cameras were on and hid it. Since it had been a student and not an actual wild animal, she was at least confident that she did not have to worry about moving it from where it was.

She wanted to, but its location was perfect for a major area where a lot of animals and apparently shifters had walked around. As she was working she could hear the sound of something purring, pretty loudly. She went still there for a moment, listening and trying to pinpoint where the sound was coming from specifically. After making sure her camera was good to go she stood up and move towards where she was pretty sure the sound was coming from. Sharping the crystal dagger that was in her hand in case she needed to defend herself. She came across the gap beneath the tree and moved closer, not trying to hide that she was approaching because if she was dealing with an actual animal over a shifter then sneaking up on them was something you really did not want to do. "Is it safe to assume you are my camera eater?" Roxana asked when she could see the snow leopard under the gap, speaking up to make sure the feline would wake up if she had not awkward as Roxana approached.

[Skylar Blue]

If Skylar knew the academy or whoever was in charge of those camera things had sent someone out right away, she probably would've moved much further away front the camera, but she felt that was highly unlikely so she had decided to take the risk. Unfortunately, she didn't know and now there was someone speaking to her. If she had been awake she probably would have been able to smell the new person coming and hide better/been a lot quieter. She slowly looked up from her happy nap and frowned a bit, So much for a quiet nap... she grumbled to herself as she watched the other girl's movements. She didn't really want to deal with this after her long day, the thought of just running off sat in the back of her mind but she didn't want to just run off quite yet. She just kind of started at the girl, her whole not being able to talk yet kind of preventing her from much conversation.

She came to this hidden spot often, and this had a few spare clothes here, eventually if she could get the other girl to maybe turn around or something, she could shift back and slip into some clothes. She wondered how she'd be able to managed doing that, and these kinds of moments were really interesting because it could end up like a big game of charades with a leopard. She'd figure it out later, for now she had to see what this person was going to do about her camera, if anything at all. Maybe, just maybe she'd be intimidated by her feline state, even though she wasn't going for that at all, you never knew.

Skylar stretched as she stood up, letting out a yawn as she padded from her little den and say down infront of it, keeping her eyes on the girl the whole time. Se wondered why they had sent someone so quickly, were those silly cameras that big of a deal? She couldn't fathom they were that important. Not not much more than to keep students from being out past their curfew, and so therefore she was being helpful to the student body and helping them not get in trouble as easily. She didn't see it as vandalism in the slightest, not that she had really given it much thought before the inccident had happened since it was more of an instinctive thing.

[Roxana Strix]

Roxana watched the snow leopard slowly look up at her with an expression that pretty much gave away that the feline had been sleeping. Roxana could not help but smirk a little at that for a moment, knowing the fact that she had interrupted someone’s 'cat nap'. She didn't feel bad about it at all of course because she was pretty confident that this was the one that had messed with her cameras and if that was the case then waking her up was a form of payback. If Rox had been wrong and this was not the culprit, then she would apologize for making an assumption and get back to what else she had to do for the day. "You plan on coming out or staying in there?" Roxana asked when the snow leopard just starred at her and remained in its little make shift den. Roxana's mind was already working through who this could be, but there were a lot of shifters in the school so she needed a little bit more to go off of before she could even begin to guess who she was talking to.

Roxana got her answer when the snow leopard stretched out and made its way out from under the gap beneath the tree. Sitting down in front of Roxana and proceeding to just look at her, which didn't bother Roxana at all. She had been trapped in a room with an injured bare and that had actually been pretty scary at the time so a snow leopard was not really imposing. She still knew how dangerous they could be and she did not plan on getting into a fight with whoever it was if it could be avoided but her expensive and manners didn’t really change at all. She still stood tall and pretty much gave off a calm and relaxed manner about her since she may have been a little bit upset about a broken expensive camera but it was not enough to really trigger some actual anger within the crystal manipulating girl.

"You don't have to shift back or anything thing if you are not wanting to. I at least figure that you can still understand English in your current state so I'll ask a simple question. Was it you who did this?" Roxana asked and as she said this she pulled out the chewed up camera from out of her little bag that she still had slung over her shoulders. Roxana didn't bother asking for the feline to shake her head yes or no because she figured that could be assumed since that was pretty much the best way to communicate with Roxana when she had given a yes or no question.

[Skylar Blue]

The cat sat quietly and watched her, a little sad the girl didn't seem afraid at all, or if she was she was hiding it really, really well. She watched the security member pull out the camera and for a moment she wanted to chew on it some more. All animals had their own things they liked to chew on from time to time, today was one of those days where this simple camera was her ball of yarn. She eyed it for another moment as she debated whether or no she should give in so quickly.

Unfortunately, with those few extra moments of looking at rj had her wanting it all the more. She tilted her head a bit she she did her best to paw at the camera, in hopes to knock it out of the lady's hand. Should she prove successful in this action, she'd most likely snatch it away and take it back to her 'den.' She most likely wouldn't try to hard to take the camera, but she would be persistent in the beggining. If she tried and failed to take the camera, she'd well, assuming the girl didn't really do anything she'd probably climb into a tree and go back to napping or just flop on the ground where she was.

This security person didn't seem to be much of a threat, so she didn't really worry about going back to her nap since it was interrupted so quickly before. She was kind of glad the other girl didn't really need her to shift back, things might have gotten weird or something, she didn't know. She figured from her actions earlier this guard would be able to put two and two together but if she happened to restate that comment she'd most likely reply with a shake of her head, deciding that trying to avoid the trouble would work better.

[Roxana Strix]

Roxana watched the snow leopard closely, but she didn't stop her from pawing the camera right of her hand. The device was broken anyways so Roxana was just going to dispose of it properly so nothing ended up eating it and chocking on the parts or seriously harming themselves. It was made out of metal and plastic and such materials could easy cut the inside of someone’s throat or worse, the inner lining of their stomach and lead to internal bleeding. All around just unpleasant result if they actually managed to break the camera down into pieces and accidently; or purposely, eat said pieces. Roxana didn't say anything and instead stood there in silence and just blinked at the action. The snow leopard had actually pawed the devices out of her hand, picked it up, and ran with it back into her den. "That is not actually giving me an answer." Roxana pointed out as she watched the snow leopard still and shook her head.

She figured she would just let this drop and get back to her work if whoever this was, was going to be stubborn over the matter. Roxana didn't have time to waste on such people...er...snow leopards when there were many other things she could actually be doing. She did end up getting a response that was the opposite of what she expected. Yet after seeing hoe the snow leopard went after and took the camera, that proved to be more of a lie. At least Roxana saw it as a lie and now did not plan on leaving so soon. "Well if you are going to lay then I might need you to change back so we can have a little chat. I did not plan on making this a big deal; I have better things to do but if you are going to be difficult...." Roxana paused there for a moment. "Things can become unpleasant." Roxana added after leaving that pause there.

[Skylar Blue]

Skylar had no intention of actually eating the camera, but to simply just chew on it until there was no hope of return for the little guy. She didn't really care that she didn't really give an answer at the moment as she figured this person was the one that had to be responsible for setting up the camera in the first place. Skylar glared at the girl as she threatened her, Well that's not very nice of you... she grumbled to herself. She huffed and moved to somewhere where she felt the girl could no longer see her and she shifted back.

Right after she shifted back she grabbed her spare clothing which happened to be some black leggings and a white sweatshirt, she emerged from the space assuming Rox hadn't gone in the space looking for her when she moved deeper into the cave like area and embarrassed Skylar after she shifted. She held the camera in her hands and held it out with a hand, "Sorry..." she mumbled, "Here's your lame camera back..." In a way, she sort of felt bad about ruining it but, in all fairness it was spying on her in a sort of way... Regardless it was destroyed now and she wasn't sure if it was fixable any more, "I'll get you a new one if you really need it." she said with a bit of a frown.

She sort of stood there awkwardly, debating whether it was really that important to introduce herself to this girl, the girl that could get her in trouble/give her a sort of punishment for ruining the camera. She figured she might as well make some kind of friendliness, since she had already gotten off on the wrong foot with the girl, "So Uh, hello, I'm Skylar... we kind of got off on the wrong foot... My bad.."

[Roxana Strix]

Roxana didn’t really like to resort to threats when she was dealing with her fellow students but she did not have time for games. Her threats revealed a little bit of what she was capable of, but not by much and plus students should already know that she had some skill if they paid attention to the events of SPECTRE at all. Still, more things that Roxana was not concerned about at the moment and she was just looking for answers with her camera. It was not like she was going to beat the snow leopard up if it didn’t cooperate but it would just lead to a difficult time for whoever the snow leopard was in the long run. Roxana’s gaze followed the snow leopard but she made no move to follow after the creature when it went out of sight. If they were making a run for it then Roxana was just going to track them down later, since could in fact track down human and animals.

A girl came over to Roxana then, wearing black leggings and a white sweatshirt and just from looking at the girl Roxana already knew who it was. Skylar Blue, one of her targets that she had been in fact keeping an eye on but Skylar had yet to be deemed a priority target so Roxana had never really had enforced a meeting. This chance meeting would still pay off in its own way and a small smile appeared on Roxana’s face but only for a moment. Roxana’s gaze went over the girl for a moment before stopping to look at the camera in her hands and then back to the girl’s eyes. “Lame? This camera is top of the line and apparently was not too lame if it caught your attention and you wanted to keep it as some sort of…chew toy.” Roxana replied back, but in a simple manner as she was not really that upset over the whole matter but found it amusing that Skylar had called it lame.

“You can keep it. It’s beyond repair, just be careful not to hurt yourself when chewing on it and try not to do the same with any another ones you might come across.” Roxana added after a moment, still in a simple tone and shook her head when Skylar brought up getting her a new one. “No need, I can handle it; just again don’t make a habit of it.” Roxana said, giving a small friendly smile to help assure the girl of her words. Granted if Skylar did keep destroying the cameras then Rox would make the other girl get her new ones because the cameras were not cheap. Roxana could see that Skylar was at odds about something but she didn’t think too far into it when Skylar introduced herself and basically apologized. “Nice to meet you Skylar. I’m Roxana and its fine, I could understand you being weary of someone asking questions about cameras because you don’t want to get into trouble.” Roxana pointed out but she still had a question, one that had her eyes locking onto the other girl. “Why did you break the camera?” Roxana asked because that was what she did not fully understand at the moment.

[Skylar Blue]

Skylar found it a little weird that the girl had grinned when she had first seen her but she didn’t pay much mind to it. She nodded to confirm that the camera was indeed “lame”, “It was lame in the sense of being uh, irritating..” she said, not really sure the exact word to call it.” She knew the camera was of a high quality and didn’t doubt that, but it was still lame. She really didn’t care to keep it or not, so when she was told she could keep it she just sort of held it in her hand for the time being, and probably later would hide it somewhere so nobody else could take it. Other ones… she thought to herself, That’s going to get old real quick… Skylar grumbled to herself.

Now that she positively knew there were other hidden cameras around, she would definitely be more paranoid as to where the cameras might be, and decided she may have to start searching around so she could at least know where to avoid for future outings. Skylar shrugged when the girl turned down her offer to pay for the camera’s replacement, Oh well I tried. It was the thought that counted, right? After the two’s introductions, she nodded a bit to Roxana’s statement, even if she didn’t feel like she was really being that weary, maybe she was, she couldn’t really tell at the moment. She looked to the other girl as she proposed her question as they made eye contact, “I don’t like people watching me, or the feeling of being watched.” She said simply.

There was definitely a deeper answer but she didn’t really feel like talking about it to someone she had just met. She hoped that’d be enough of an answer, lots of people were really uh… paranoid about people watching them, right? Skylar thought so, or at least hoped so cause while that was the truth, it wasn’t the whole truth and she didn’t really want to get into all of the truth right now, since she had just met this person.

[Roxana Strix]

"Irritating...I see." Roxana said simply as she looked at the broken camera Skylar still had in her hands and just shook her head. The cameras were not there to spy on the students, well not all of them anyways. Skylar was one of them that the camera was sort of supposed to watch after but the main purpose of the camera was for protection. Keeping the school grounds out in the woods in a sort of watched state. The deeper a person would go into the woods would mean the less likely hood of them running into any camera, but close to the school there a person might as well expected there to be cameras around. After the SPECTRE attack the school had done a lot of things in order to add to the protecting and looking after the students so cameras were only one of the logical improvements added to the campus. There were cameras before but not in as many locations as they were in now, and not as high tech.

Roxana did not mind if Skylar went out and tried to find every camera out there, she just didn't want the girl touching or damaging them. Rox thought she had did a good job at making sure they were hidden well but Skylar had one already so it was possibly that the girl could find the others. Rox gave a simple nod as Skylar pointed out that she did not like being watched or the feeling like she was being watched. Sadly I have been watching you for a while and will be until I'm told not to, so no avoiding that. Roxana thought to herself but of course she did not intend to reveal any of that at all. "Well, they are for the safety for all the students on campus. So just try not to think about them too much." Roxana responded back, having thought of suggesting Skylar just go deeper into the woods but Skylar was someone she need to watch so she didn't want her wondering off too far. Even if Skylar was not a current priority target, she was still important and a part of Roxana's overall mission at the school.

The response she gave was simple so Roxana answered back simply and that was all there was to it and since the matter was taken care of, she was pretty much done here. Yet, she felt a little bit odd about ending things just here at the moment so figured she try and talk to Skylar for a little bit. Well, attempt since Skylar was already showing clear signs that she didn't really like to give much away or talk that much. Something along those lines and if someone was not a big talker, then the chances of Roxana sticking around long were slim because she didn't often say that much. "Mind if I ask why you are out here running around at this hour? No classes or any clubs to be doing right now?" Roxana asked out of curiosity and while she may have been a security intern, she was not here to try and get Skylar in any kind of trouble.